Kyra Freestar Email & Phone Number

Co-creator and community member at Mightier: a collective of women who work collaboratively to take on ambitious projects for social good.

Seattle, Washington, United States

SOCIAL SCIENCEFriendly, focused academic editing for research articles and grant proposals in interdisciplinary health and social sciences. I enjoy looking at the English language from many angles by working with scholars who learned English as a foreign language and those who turned to academia as a second or third career. Past editorial projects have included manuscripts submitted to journals such as Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, Interdisciplinary Studies of Music, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Medical Decision Making, Pain Medicine, and Psycho-Oncology; and K99/R00 and R01 proposals to the NIH for early career nurse scientists. I also volunteer through the Academic Editing Circle, which connects Black and/or Indigenous scholars with pro bono professional editing at www.academic-editing-circle.us.SOCIAL SCIENCE FICTIONQuality, collaborative line editing and copy editing of book-length speculative fiction—for authors and publishers and those who are both. While I focus on clarity and conscious language, I pay close attention to authorial voice and intent as well as typographic and grammatical detail. I like semicolons and dashes; you don't have to!Past editorial projects have included adult, young adult, and middle grade fantasy and science fiction, including the Durga System books by Jessie Kwak, the Babel Trilogy by Richard Farr, and the award-winning "Dreams Before the Start of Time" by Anne Charnock. I'm a fan of space opera and hard sci-fi; paranormal romance and urban fantasy; epic, cozy, dark, and comic fantasy; and speculative literature from the post-apocalyptic to hopepunk. I also love to copy edit memoir and genre fiction with themes of social, international, and ecological justice.

I have been a member of the Northwest Editors Guild since 2005. I served on the conference committee for the 2007 and 2009 conferences and on the board of directors from 2012 to 2014. From 2016 through 2018, I coordinated the Guild's mentoring program, which matches early-career and experienced editors for one-on-one mentoring in professional skills and career planning. I recently joined the 2019 conference committee with a focus on ensuring accessibility and inclusion. I am happy to answer questions about editing and working with editors!

Seattle, Washington, United States

At Tandem Editing LLC, I spent 12 years providing quality editorial services to nonprofit organizations, policy centers, and researchers in social science and public policy. Tandem Editing LLC is a partnership between editors Cindy Reeh, Connie Chaplan, and Kyra Freestar. We work closely and collaboratively on complex, technical editing projects. One point of contact. Two sets of eyes.As a partnership, we capitalize on the skills and experience of each editor to offer comprehensive editorial support—project management, highly skilled editing, subject-matter expertise, and greater availability than a single editor can offer. A committed lead editor will serve as a single point of contact to support your staff and ensure that publications maintain a single voice. For consistent quality and attention, two sets of eyes will review each document to address various levels of editing—big-picture content, copyediting, and proofreading—and to offer a fresh set of eyes when multiple rounds of editing are required. Tandem Editing is highly experienced in editing for health and health care, global health, education, food and hunger policy, community organizing, environmental stewardship and policy, international development, arts and arts administration, social services, and more.

I served as administrator for the Author-Editor Clinic and copy edited and contributed to the Clinic's blog, The Editor's POV.

I provided part-time box office, administrative, and editorial services on a contract basis to Seattle's premier contemporary music ensemble.

I worked with the research team and with staff at five clinics at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to contact and enroll patients in a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an online quality of life survey. I collected data, cleaned data, and proofread related research reports.

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